Tackling the gender gap is crucial to fight food insecurity and the climate crisis

The groundbreaking FAO report “The Unjust Climate: Measuring the impacts of climate change on the rural poor, women and youth” shows that climate change disproportionately impacts women farmers in low- and middle-income countries. In this interview, Lauren Phillips, Deputy Director of the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), says this gender gap causes billions of dollars of losses among female-headed farming households and widens the income gap among the rural poor.
00:05 - What is the main finding of the FAO report “The Unjust Climate”?
00:45 - How does the climate crisis disproportionately impact female farmers?
01:51 - If the gender gap left unaddressed, how would the climate crisis further affect rural women?
02:25 - How addressing the gender gap could benefit food security and climate mitigation at the same time?
02:53 - What is an example of an FAO project empowering women in agrifood systems?
03:22 - Why FAO advocates to enhance financing for gender equality in the rural world?
Link to the publication: doi.org/10.406...
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